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4 The Newi-Revitw, Reieburg, Ore Wed., Jon. IS, 1950 Published D illy Exoapt Sunday ly the Newi-Sevie Company, Inc. ' r.t.rfl i.o.nd aim mMtr UJ , Iftt. .1 111 -til llllei Rltbnr. Ortson. Ml ! SUreb I. 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON gm EDWIN U. KNAPP Editor 4ifcB Manager Member of the Aeioelated Preee, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Aesoatatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations llinmlll f WSBT-HOLLIDA1 CO., INC.. afflo.i IS NJ tttk, Ckleaft. S.e raaoiua. La. AmalM. III. -aril.... (k Lit. uuiuKiniON raifs-i. omi-.-b; Hail-rat t.ai ti.ee. '."'i' Ihraa m.atb. MM B, Clli C.rrltr--., ,.mr lll.ee (la "'", at fiar, aa, mnalh 11.01 oolilla 0iaa Br Mall Tar raar Mil. nonthi 11.11. Ulna aiaalba 12.71 AND THERE By CHARLES V. STANTON Two men sat in a chilled office. The only light came f om a couple of candles rakishly stuck atop upended cans. Ash trays spilled cigaret butts from heaped-up piles. Coffee cups, still containing black dregs, sat on the littered desk. The men had hard work focusing weary eyes upon those who entered. Occasionally they rose to stretch cramped muscles. One kneaded his aching neck and rubbed his eyes, red and swollen from the long vigil in the dimly lit room, where the flickering flame from candles cast grotesque shadows. The other slumped out before him, relaxing as Two telephones sat upon would emit a buzzing sound. Immediately both men would rouse to alertness, listening quietly, give a few words of in struction, then sink back into their chairs. One' of the men left the room for a moment. ; "It's funny" said "Doc" Wells, Copco's district manager, "how Bill keeps going." r Bill Stinson; the man who is Copco's district superintendent. "Bill" continued Doc, "hasn't slept more than three hours to my knowledge in the last three days. I don't know how he stands it." , "Haven't had much: sleep yourself, have you?" asked Bill, who had returned in time to hear Doc's last remark. "Well," said Doc, "we at least aren't out bucking snow drifts like those boys who hunted all night for that 'leaner.' I'd rather be here than out on the line." ., The telephone buzzed three times. '" Both men looked startled. Bill's hand reached out for the cradled instrument, seeming to pause for .just an instant as if he dreaded what he might hear. He spoke into the phbne. A voice crackled back excitedly. Doc and Bill seemed to hold their breath. "Line 12 tests 0. K.,"' Bill said. ' i Doc crossed his fingers. "Go ahead," he said. ; "Close 1220," Bill barked into the telephone. "Open 2030. Open 2024." . : ";.'. , . ' Sharp orders rattled off in cabalistic figures. .' ' "Right," came back the answer. . - . . , "Stick around," said Doc, "we're about to make a test." The telephone again gave off its sibilant summons. The voice at the other end of the line sounded labored. "He's running back and forth between the phone and the plant," Bill explained. "He's been doing that for three days." "Test still O. It," Bill interpreted. His fist hit the table. . , ' "Who's at the substation?" "That's right," said Doc, "we sent him out to check the Dixonville line. Get Henry." "Henry went out on that last Toketee break," Bill said. "I'll get it." ! He dashed from the office. Doc cranked a telephone box. "Bill's on his way out to the until you hear from him." Tension was mounting. Employes slipped in quietly. The air seemed charged with nervous anxiety. Men lit 'cigarets, puffed once or twice, tossed away the fag and immediately brought out another. Doc's; fingers drummed on the desk top. : Again the buzz of the telephone. "She's heating up," came Bill's shout. "This is it!" Doc exclaimed, his voice trembling. Every eye turned to the fluorescent fixture. It flickered, then grew bright. The flames from the candles seemed suddenly weak. The telephone sounded again. No one was left in the outer office to answer it. "Yes, lady,' said Doc. "We hope it won't break again. We're sorry your refrigerator defrosted. We're doing our best." , "Must" Program Given Kiwanis By Its President Kiwanis International Presi' dent J. HuRh Jackson today sub mitted a significant five -point community program to the Eose burg Kiwanfi club for Its guld ance In the year ahead. In a message read by Maurice New land, club president, Jackson an nealed to all Klwanlans to "de mand efficiency and economy lif the conduct of our government, whether at the national, state, or local level." Jackson, dean of Stanford uni versity's graduate school of busi ness, said leaders In large cities and small towns must constantly devote their personal services to the strengthening of human and spiritual values. His message was read In con nection with the Roseburg club'r observance of Kiwanis Interna tional's 35th anniversary. Jack WAS LIGHT in his chair, his feet propped best he could. the desk, and occasionally one had stepped outside the office, sub," he explained. "Hold up son's program follows: 1. We must continue to serve our youth, the future citizens of our land, 2. We must work to strengthen and make more effi cient the church, the home and the school. 3. We must emphasize to our peoples throughout our na tions their l ights and responsibil ties as citizens of the United States and Canada. 4. We must work for understanding and greater cooperation between management and labor, that our enterprise system may be sirengineneti. s. we must, as good citizens, demand efficiency and economy In the conduct of our government, whether at the national state or local level. Pefore reading Dean Jackson's m age, Newland briefly trac ed i he history of Kiwanis Inter national since its founding 35 years ago at Detroit. Tne meeting was under the dir ection of the club committee on education and fellowship headed by Horace Berg. The word "mile" comes from the Latin words mllle passum thousand steps. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Presi Grants Pass Courier Labor Guns for Rep. Ellsworth. Senator Guy Cordon and Rep resentative Harris Ellsworth of this congressional district are among the 104 Republican and three Democrat members of Congress who are marked for Eolitlcal liquidation by Labor's eague for Political Action. They are classed as "unfriend ly to labor" in a recent issue of the AFL political publication, the League Reporter. it is a surprise to no one that the bosses of organized labor plan to beat every public-officeholder who refuses to take dicta tion from such bosses. Further, t is no surprise that practically all of them who are to be purged are Republicans. . For 17 years the Nudeal and its successor, the Trudeal, have been depending upon organized labor, the political machines of (lie Dig cities ana tne traditional Democratic South to keep in power. There Is no difference between the Nudeal and the Trudeal ex cept that one political fox took over after the other had passed from the scene. The big-city bosses backed both because pat ronage and not partisanship ts tne method of Its perpetuation. The South votes Democratic be cause it still Is fighting the Civil War, Labor bosses are seeking to recover the economic advan tage the Nudeal soonsored Wagner law which gave them the government's backing In forc ing managment to take what ever economic medicine those bosses prescribed. This writer can remember the day when the CIO was attempt ing to organize the editorial staff and circulation employes of a newspaper on which he was em ployed. All persons connected with the management were afraid to even be present In the news room, where the meeting was being held, for fear that a biased federal board would hold that such mere presence consti tuted Intimidation. In those days the government provided the black jack which labor bosses used in their "col lective bargaining" with the em ployers. Then came the Taft-Hartley law providing that employers be given the same rights and safe guards as employes. To get elected in what ap peared to be a hopeless fight in 1948, Truman promised repeal. His party won control of both houses of Congress but Truman failed to deliver. The Taft-Hartley law still stands, even though It Is administered by an execu tive branch of government which frequently refuses to use it and which still is demanding It out right repeal. We are not averse to amend ments of the Taft-Hartley law. W believe that labor and mana gement should have exactly equal rights under any labor law, Just as equal as two citizens whose In terests conflict in a court of equity. We don't want to see one side of the other acting also as judge and Jury, 1 tie Ar Li purge program or fcially Is based on votes of mem bers of Congress on three measures arbitrarily selected by the labor bosses the Taft-Hartley law proposed amendment, the Taft amendment to the housing law and the confirma tion vote in the Senate of John Carson to the Federal Trade com mission. Actually, the yardstick Is solely the vote on the Taft-Hartley law. Cordon and Ellsworth, like all others on the AFL purge list, have vated on hundreds of Issues involving. the general welfare of me nallon. that tlosen t count with the Labor's League for political Action. We are opposed to the AFL political purge technique both oe cause of the basis on which It Pariah 1W Odd the way things work out sometimes? There was Mrs. Ex wun, for instance, whom I knew well many years ago. She was the devoted, cheerful mother of two dear little boys; and the wife of one of those possessive Individuals who don't want a wife to have any life or any Interest but her husband. Jelous even of sons! Mrs. Exwun wouldn't quarrel with him. She worked hard at being a devout Christian, and at being a good wife. She would do her best to smooth things over when Mr. Exwun got upset over something or nothing! She never deliberately opposed him because if she did he would vent his frustration on the boys: de story toys; deprive them of some childish privileges like go ing to the beach or out in the yard to play; or turn to on one or both .of them with a shingle. . . it was his way, of course, of striking back at his wife. Mrs. Exwun's elderly, gentle fa ther grieved over his daughter's unhappy times; but he knew bet ter than to interfere. That would make things harder for her. So he comforted himself with know is essayed and because we are against it in principle. If organized labor, through class action, is to seek to control the government, It is reasonable to expect that other clfasses may take up the chant the veterans, the Catholics, the Protestants, tha farmers, he consumers and what not. We believe that, unless the general electorate repudiates such tactics at the polls, the day will come when the government circles here will be in as chaotic conditions as they are in France and some other countries today. Hitler tested the defenses of such a nation. The world knows the results. It may be that our 17 years of "spend and spend and win and win" has placed a majority of the nation's voters cither on the government's subsidy list or its potent favor list and the politi cal machine cannot be stopped, or even slowed down. Those of us in America who are oposed to government by class still have the right of open protest. We still can resort to the secrecy of the ballot box to implement that protest. The Fourth Congressional dis trict is blessed with an able, honest, Intelligent, hardworking congressman in the person of Harris Ellsworth. The harder the Labor League for Political Education seeks to defeat hm, the harder those opposed to the "class struggle" technique in our politics will fight to re-elect him. The test Is not far away. The test in the case of Senator Cordon cannot come in 1950. His term does not expire this year. F. S. Road Blocks To The Trillion Dollar Economy Oregon City Enterprise A few days before President Truman gave his Trillion dollar economy message to Congress, there were some developments within his administration and some facts given out by agen cies closely associated with reg ulatory government, mat some one should have told the Presi dent about. The beloved Democratic sage and senior statesman, Bernard Baruch, flatly stated that the so cial security benefits for old peo ple, beyond 65 were a delusion By Viahnttt S. Martin ing his little home was a haven when or if she needed It.. Everyone who knew Mrs. Ex wun was fond of her. But her friends did not visit her much never when her husband was home! (He burned up her trea surer's books one time when she was a P.-T.A. officer). However, Mrs. Exwun rarely referred to her difficult home-life and kept a sunny face towards her chil dren and friends. Once I heard her say: "I could take the chil dren and go home to my parents but somehow I don't think that's the way to work it out. At. least, not so far ..." t. Then she was in an accident. In the hospital for a long siege. Her bills were paid she had ev ery care and awarded a lump sum that surprised everybody. She promptly banked it in her own name; advertised that she would be responsible for no debts other than her own. . . Last I knew, Mr. Exwun was an affable host, charming with his wife, proud of his boys (both of them came home safely from war service) and the well-dressed holder of a really good job. Odd, -how things work out, isn't it? under conditions as they now ex ist, but, for social security the administration takes bumptious credit. "Living costs," said Mr. Baruch, "have jumped 65 per cent since 1939 when the pension system was adopted and each social security check now buys that much less than before the war." The reason is Fair Deal infla tlon. What the President should have talked about In his message was suggested by Mr. Baruch. How can we set up old age pen sions so that those reaching 65 can continue to work and get something added to their govern ment check, which under the Fair Deal spending has little va lue against the inflationary pri ces caused by government spend ing. Mr. Baruch said it was dan gerous to cling to "any depression-formed idea of encouraging older people to stop working." He himself did some of his best work after 65. But there were some other things someone should have told Mr. Truman. His own agriculture, depart ment reported on December 30, when Mr. Truman was ponder ing the trillion dollar economy, that farm prices have now skid ded below parity but living costs have Inched up. Farm prices have dropped 23 per cent while production and living costs are down only four per cent. Fair Deal inflation is the cause, un disputed. The Federal Reserve bank, turning to Western conditions, pointed out that unemployment has doubled and while business generally Is optimistic or whistl ing in the dark, so to speak, the Federal Reserve bank said "un employment will nevertheless be sufficiently large to cause con siderable concern." To our way of reasoning you don't build trillion dollar econ omy on that, without a trillion dollar Inflation or Juggling the price of gold to the point of mak ing unsound money. But the roundup of business and the issuance of new catalogs by the big mail order houses all emphasized something far Irom a trillion dollar economy in the near future. The United Press roundup of business and industry pointed out that "price cuts and In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) valley, back Into the olden golden days I MAYBE isinglass is a strategic material now. Maybe it might save our bacun In case of another war. Maybe it will enable us to twiddle our fingers at nations that have plenty of mica In the natural state whereas we are short of it. These are problems of the mod ern time. There was a wondrous period In this nation's history when we didn't give two hoots down a rain-barrel for strategic war materials. In those-days we weren't afraid of any other na tion. We didn't regard ourselves as the national keeper of any national brother. We just went ahead and hoed our own row of corn and let the people of other countries hoe their, row. We didn't get the Jitters every time we read the International news. As a matter of fact, WE NEVER READ THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS. We regarded such things as sissy business. It was In those days that Isin glass REALLY MATTERED. It mattered because it made base burners possible. - YOU children never heard of a base-burner, of course, Nor, I suppose, did any native son of the Golden West. So I reckon I'd better elucidate. A base-burner was a squat, pot bellied stove that burned anthra cite which, for the further en lightment of Western folk, is hard, slow-burning, clean coal. The fire was in the bottom of the base-burner, and in the upper part was a hopper that could be filled with anthracite of the "nut" size. As the coal burned out at the bottom, more filtered down from the hopper at the top so that, If you filled the hopper at night, THERE WOULD BE A NICE, WARM FIRE IN THE BASE BURNER THE NEXT MORN ING and the room would be nice and cozy. . THAT doesn't mean anything to you children. You have a ple thora of modern gadgets, Includ ing furnaces controlled by a thermostat that you set when you go to bed and with no further monkey-business it keeps the house warm as toast all night so that you don't freeze your little tootsies when you get up to a cold house In the morning. It was different back when the base-burner was invented. People then got up to houses that were just four degrees colder In the wee small hours of the dark mornings than the North Pole and the only way to relieve the cold was to BUILD A FIRE. By the time the fire was built you were frozen stiff, but as the stove got to drawing well and became red all over you came slowly back to life and motion. It was Into a world such as this that the base-burner came and changed morning from a terrible ordeal to a pleasant experience. WHERE does the isinglass come in? Oh, yes. I'd forgotten. The bottom part of these base burners was made of little square windows in the cast iron frame of the thing and these windows were filled with Isinglass which miraculously resisted the fire and permitted the rosy light of the burning anthracite to come glow ing through. It was wonderful in the gloaming, in that magic hour before the kerosene lamps were lighted, and It was even more wonderful when you toasted your toes in front of It the next morning. j Whatever synthetic mica may mean in the modern world, It can't be any hotter stuff, rela tively speaking, than isinglass was back in the base-burner days. clearance sales" brightened the I New Ypar'fi nnflnntr fnr mntum. ers, that price reductions were announcea oy Bears KoeoucK anu i Montgomery Ward, and a num- ! ber of manufnrttirpr miHa sharp price slashes on every side u 11 j iu uuisier ousiness. xoui don't make trillion dollar econ- i omv in the dhi fntiii-A n that and Its wicked to build false hope uy laming 01 u as sometning n our time. Thpsp nrf hut n four nt tho maA blocks in the way of an lmmed- mic iiuuun uuuar economy. umira siaies certainly can; have a trillion rinllnt. ov,r,nm..- and perhaps a sound one. in time ' ii - uuii i gu socialistic, wnat Mr. Trumnn nmminvl wa i lllon dollar economy based on a ! tumuli uuuar miiauon and uni sound money which Is a curse to the average man. ! Thf Hoflif .MnJtn. l. ...1.1.1. I he would accomplish this Is tan tamount to issuing greenbacks behind which thprp It npithai- ail. ver nor gold. In the natural course of events this country may do a trillion dollars In turn over business and production and wages in time but what would It mean to the people, if with t we had a tril lion dollar inflation? Ask Ger many. It once listened to that kind of talk with hope hope that turned out to b. cruelly false. School Aid Bill Hearing Slated WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -U& The House labor committee has voted to take up the senate approved school aid bill on Feb. 6. It agreed also to stay with It until an effective compromise Is reached. Members said the vote for this schedule, proposed by Rep. Bai ley (D-WVa), was 17 to 3. The senate-approved bill would leave administration of $300,000, 000 of federal school aid up to the states. The committee's decision to take up that measure was inter preted as a victory for members seeking to end dispute over aid to parochial schools by a "half way" approach. The group would take up the Senate bill as a basis for agree ment. But they also propose an amendment which would set (a side a Dercentage of aid for par ochial school bus service in those V states whose laws now specifi cally prohibit it. PHONE 100 between 6 15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your Newi Review. Ask for Harola' Mobley 17 Help Douglas County In 1950 Deposit your money with us and it will remain in DOUGLAS COUNTY and go to work for you. Investigate our bank-by-mail night depository service and Douglas County State Bank Home-Owned, Home-Operated Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Just Received CARLOAD GALVANIZED IRON ROOFING . Place your order now while stocks are complete cvinvcwctscn 01 Wt&OAK FROM THE 31 in.ni "e a fA - ou, .""ern; ."flie,,. "811 hlm " PonT Roseburg Review April 10, 1919. We doubt whether there were many aufoi of any kind en the highways in 1919 so we can't understand an auto thief attempting to steal a ear . . . sort of like stealing locomotive but that's been done too! So to thwart thieves and assure peace of mind we sug gest you always lock your car and have it insured, by ut preferably, but be sure it is insured, won't you? y ' It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R TIPT0N PERMIN INSURANCE mm Bill Tlptan 214 W. Cass Next door to Poet Office) Leu Franco And Cowboys To Play A Sutheriin Tym! Franco and his Happy Valley Cowboys will be playing regularly for dancing at tne sutn-Amm-lran Lesion hall each Saturday, beginning this Satur day, Jan. 21, n was annuuiiueu today. The well-known Roseburg com bo has been engaged for an In definite stay at the Sutheriin hall. The Legion building there was only recently constructed. WE'RE NOT TRYING TO String... , , . You along. Our tools and hardware cost LESS, and they lower costs because they do the job better! Drop in soon! Umpqua Valley . Hardware 202 N. Jackson. Phone 73 plan, safe deposit boxes, other banking conveniences. NEWS OF YEARS AGO rtei,-" fer. ' l"e ,t SUr nt a w h'r t M(fi at be,, - t, er.. 4r,'"e ," the r,et a CsH Permln 71 J
